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1. "For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame."Author: Charles Simmons

2. "People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for."Author: Dennis Kucinich

3. "Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you've magically turned into Noam Chomsky?"Author: Douglas Coupland

4. "I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'"Author: J. R. Martinez

5. "I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week."Author: James Herbert

6. "Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face."Author: Lauren Hutton

7. "Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him."Author: Patsy Kensit

8. "By now, at the end of a sloping alley, we had reached the shores of a vast marsh. Some unknown quality in the sparkling water had stained its whole bed a bright yellow. Green leaves, of such a sour brightness as almost poisoned to behold, floated on the surface of the rush-girdled pools. Weeds like tempting veils of mossy velvet grew beneath in vivid contrast with the soil. Alders and willows hung over the margin. From where we stood a half-submerged path of rough stones, threaded by deep swift channels, crossed to the very centre.("The Basilisk")"Author: R. Murray Gilchrist

9. "We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant people who are harboring unawares the grandeur of large deaths. We carry it in us like a darkening fruit. It opens and spills out. That is death."Author: Rebecca Goldstein

10. "The range and variety of Chaucer's English did much to establish English as a national language. Chaucer also contributed much to the formation of a standard English based on the dialect of the East Midlands region which was basically the dialect of London which Chaucer himself spoke. Indeed, by the end of the fourteenth century the educated language of London, bolstered by the economic power of London itself, was beginning to become the standard form of written language throughout the country, although the process was not to be completed for several centuries. The cultural, commercial, administrative and intellectual importance of the East Midlands (one of the two main universities, Cambridge, was also in this region), the agricultural richness of the region and the presence of major cities, Norwich and London, contributed much to the increasing standardisation of the dialect."Author: Ronald Carter

11. "Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man."Author: Russell Kirk

12. "Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow,Serenaded by a stray bird or two.Kings and commoners end up the same,No more enduring than last night's dream."Author: Ryokan

13. "Like a coin falling from Burj Khalifa, I dropped for your wicked grace.But like the coins at the end of a rainbow, I was chased down and worthy for another to embrace."Author: Scott McGoldrick

14. "When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation."Author: Seamus Heaney

15. "Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city."Author: Tadao Ando

16. "One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor."Author: Ted Danson

17. "I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view."Author: Walter Kohn

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